I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.
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Arthur Erickson, Architect (1924) |
Louis Finkelstein, Clergyman (1895) |
Boy George, Musician (1961) |
Michael Gerber, Writer (1969) |
Marla Gibbs, Actress (1931) |
Lucy Hale, Actress (1989) |
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William Wallace Campbell, Scientist (1938) |
Mary Cassatt, Artist (1926) |
Jerome K. Jerome, Author (1927) |
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