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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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I'm not moving from an ideological standpoint. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life better. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life worse! I'm trying to find a happy medium that I can make some sense of.
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Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.
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