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Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

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Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
Film Writer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Georgia
Lula Carson Smith
Carson McCullers
Littles
Crystals
Music
Colored
Ever
Candy
Little
Imagined
Sometimes
Fellow
Thing
Fellows
Softest
Like
Pieces
Crystal
Times
Saddest

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