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The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
Historian
Poet
Writer
Groves
Texas
Forever
Dissolves
Fighting
Endures
Water
Sweetness
Character
Sugar
Like
Insult
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Fight

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