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When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Around
Enough
Long
Crawl
Snake
Snakes
Dirt
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