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Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen.
Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen.
Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern
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- Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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- Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern
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