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Where are your pants, son?

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
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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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