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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
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Something
Deserved
Believe
Disaster
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Americans
Thinking
Terrible
Trouble
Happens
Someone

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