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Baby Girl, I say. I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you? She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. To wipe my bottom good when I'm done? No, baby, the other one. About who you are.

Kathryn Stockett

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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Needs
Gone
Hiccups
Good
Girl
Wipe
Stills
Crying
Remember
Steady
Still
Cry
Everything
Bottom
Need
Baby
Done
Told

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