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It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

Dorothy Allison

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Girl
Milk
Littles
Fats
Live
Damn
Little
Girls
Assed
Thing
Except
Giggle
Work
Drink
Grin
Make
Gets
Whiskey
Religion
Dry

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