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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
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Sylvester
Georgia
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Awake
Edges
Becoming
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