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When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 14
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