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Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

Polly Horvath

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Polly Horvath
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 30
Author
Novelist
Writer
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Even
Something
Tempted
Make
Begin
Lose
Loses
Wonderful
Better
Sometimes

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