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Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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Cheese
Tea
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South
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Things
Homemade
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Biscuits

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