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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Room
Rooms
Talking
Write
Everything
Writing
Heart
Never
Stops

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