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There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Jan Karon

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Jan Karon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Lenoir
North Carolina
Writing
Laughing
Make
Small
Things
Write
Consolation
People
Sense
Readers
Two
Towns
Give
Laugh
Many
Exist
Giving
Reader

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