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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
People
Marry
Wrong
Sometimes
Love

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