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I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.

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