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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

— Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams (1990)

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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

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A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.

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