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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Dorothy Allison

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Together
Come
Lied
Things
Deceit
Apart
Held
Easily
Lies
Lying

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