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I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Really
Looked
Things
Instead
Time
Whether
Half
Girl
Felt
Right
Impersonating
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Worried

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