Ann Patchett - Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a t...

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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Ann Patchett

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Nun, ich sage immer, dass die zwei Dinge, an denen ich in meinem Leben am meisten verheerend war, als Teenager und als Ehefrau, die beiden Dinge waren, die ich wirklich verdiente, als ich flauschige Zeitschriftenstücke schrieb.

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