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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Needs
Flower
Hog
Life
Nobody
Cousin
Like
Persons
Chicken
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Chickens
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Grandmother
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Sometimes
Plant
Great
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Cherokee

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