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They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
Children
Good
Mockingbird
Weep
Innocence
Night
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