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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Book
Novels
Always
Sister
Romance
Horror
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