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Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
Writer
Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
Ones
Stay
Away
Much
Love
Kill

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