For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complicatio…

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. ✨ ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA
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