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I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
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Novelist
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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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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.
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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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I prefer true over happy now.
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I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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