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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
Forbidden
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Bitter
Coffee
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