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There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

Laura Lippman

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Laura Lippman
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: January 31
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Journalist
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Atlanta
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