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Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
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Brooklyn
New York
Towns
Parlor
Sorrow
Alleviate
Advantage
Bookstores
Doe
Lacking
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Definite
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Cream
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Ice
Even
Town
Bookstore

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