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It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Different
Believe
Avoid
People
Accept
Accepting
Looking
Stills
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Hard

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