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She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

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Starhawk
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 17
Environmentalist
Feminist
Journalist
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Miriam Simos
Miriam Samos
Everything
Paganism
Touches
Changes

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