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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

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
Assured
Falsehood
Cooperation
Rest
Alive
Book
Long

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