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Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Speak
Else
True
Truth
Self
Always
Deepest
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