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I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Fight
Make
Learning
Time
Fighting
Life
Happiness
Littles
Carve
Little
Emergencies
Everyday
Everything
Pieces
Important

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