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Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground.
Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground.
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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- Barbara Kingsolver
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- Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1955; activity date not established; Wikidata Q1264643, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1264643 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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