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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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