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You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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