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Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

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Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
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Miranda J. Grossinger
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I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.
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He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.
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You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.
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