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Beware of a man with manners.

Eudora Welty

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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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Autobiographer
Literary Critic
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Jackson
Mississippi
Eudora Alice Welty
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Manners
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