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Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

Kathryn Stockett

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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Mother
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Underestimates
Underestimate
Sorry
Fool

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....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
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Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.
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