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You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

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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Nostalgia
World
Places
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After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
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