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My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

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Jan Karon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Lenoir
North Carolina
Writing
Loaded
Bare
Largely
Hungry
Novel
Food
Firsts
Cupboards
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