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the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Around
Cooling
Things
Arranging
Purple
Sunset
Evening
Blue
Staining
Black
Redness
Night
Seeped

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