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Nobody should go through life without falling in love.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Nobody
Fall
Without
Love
Life
Falling

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