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Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Twenties
Drama
Proud
Started
Left
Back
Yoked
Right
Fierce
Years
Twenty

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