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The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Indian Creek
Texas
Noses
Surely
Members
Impressionable
Faces
Unruly
Erotic
Positively
Nose

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