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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
Historian
Poet
Writer
Groves
Texas
Gulliver
Willing
Child
Children
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