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I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Reason
Desperately
Wanted
Motion
Trying
Explain
Something
Reasons
Make
Begin
Things
Imagine
World
Understand
Change

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