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Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 56
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Homes
Separate
Black
Home
Done
Rolled
Way
Faded
Things
Bathroom
Time
Domestic

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