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You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
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Sylvester
Georgia
Already
Mother
Stills
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