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Operating Instructions

Anne Lamott

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 1993
Pages
Pages 252

A single mother keeps a journal of her son's first year, the colic, the exhaustion, the rage and the love, with her sober friends and her church around her, while her best friend is dying of cancer.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
Operating Instructions, Anne Lamott

The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.

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