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When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.
Sharon Olds
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Sharon Olds
Age: 54
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Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.
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