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Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Hearts
Sorrow
Winters
Ordinary
Mythical
Alive
Pump
Lives
Pumps
Earth
Magnificent
Heart
Instant
Winter

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