Writing is my form of celebration and prayer. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2004).…

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Writing is my form of celebration and prayer. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2004). An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain, p.160, Simon and Schuster
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