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I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
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Wilmington
Delaware
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.
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