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Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?

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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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