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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Tell
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Different
Motives
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Examine
Believe
Motive
Way
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Never
Reader
Ways

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