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You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Breed
Virginia
West
Girls
Tough
Told
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Right

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