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Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.
Kathryn Stockett
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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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