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Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Thought
Puzzles
Human
Breathe
Humans
Close
Heart
Nobody
Sleep
Eyes
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Perfect
Drifting

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