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Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right - he'll keep you company, be your friend, never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against them.
Mary Ann Shaffer
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Mary Ann Shaffer
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: December 13
Died: 2008
Died: February 16
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Martinsburg
West Virginia
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Life goes on. What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
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In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown
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I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.
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Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.
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Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.
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Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.
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I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.
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Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.
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