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I envied it not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.

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Kelley Armstrong
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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city of Sudbury
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