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I think we need to develop the courage to write from the viewpoint of people who may seem quite different from ourselves, who might have a different sexual orientation or a different race or a different ethnicity.
Alice Mattison
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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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