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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

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Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
Film Writer
Novelist
Playwright
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Lula Carson Smith
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