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I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
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Perishable
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Life
Begging
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