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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Candy
Bars
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Truth
Always
Tellers
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Preference

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