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Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.

Eudora Welty

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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
Author
Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Novelist
Photographer
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Jackson
Mississippi
Eudora Alice Welty
Relationship
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Whatever
Extreme
Running
Wherever
People
Extremes
Lovely
Changing
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