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Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Appleton
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Practically
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Anything
Everything

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... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.
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here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
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