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You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something. But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.

Sandra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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