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hope

November 30th, 2011

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up. — Anne Lamott

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• annika

  this is inspiring

• James Radloff

  Never giving up is what has allowed me to survive. Knowing that I have made it this far gives me encouragement to move forward into the future.