Ann Dowd
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It feels like all is possible.
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Bees humming in a tree of blossom.
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I’m trying to figure out how to receive unconditional love. That’s hard to do when you’ve never really had it, so I’m trying to navigate that.
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Like having a foundation.
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There are types: there is the world-being-comfortable type of love and there’s the lust-and-passion type of love – I think I like that one better.
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