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A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

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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