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You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
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Sylvester
Georgia
Everlasting
Afraid
Home
Ever
Enough

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