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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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