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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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