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When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

Wendy Mass

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Wendy Mass
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 22
Author
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Livingston
New Jersey
Never
Figured
World
Wife
Knew
Age
Mother
Place
Someone
Nothing
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