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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Wilmington
Delaware
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools
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