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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

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Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
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Basketball Player
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
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Tongue
Without
Changing
English
Became
Expression
Least
Screen
Eyes
Screens
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Smoke

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