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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: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Dirt
Learn
Around
Enough
Long
Crawl
Snake
Snakes

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I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if you didn't quote me on that. -Bobby Tom
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