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I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
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Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
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Children
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Innocence

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