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But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Rain
Goes
Feeling
Fear
Feelings
Trudge
Away
Inadequacy
Really
Regardless
Never
Ahead

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