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I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
Kathryn Stockett
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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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Mississippi
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Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some notes from the Bible study. Just writing down all the things I love about Jesus.
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Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
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Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?
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This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.
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Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
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The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.
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