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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Throws
Fell
River
Suicide
Rivers
Shame
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