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Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Black
Nina
Away
Stripped
Power
Truest
Self
Colors
Sometimes
Images
Thing
Color
Knew
White

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