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The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

Beth Henley

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Beth Henley
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 8
Actor
Dramatist
Playwright
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Elizabeth Becker Henley
Poor
Mississippi
Woman
Store
Next
Stores
Night
Christmas
School
Wrote
Laurel
Writing
Worked
Dime
Thing
Alone
Laurels
Class
Dimes

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