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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
Worry
Worries
Skin
Skins
Folks
Behinds
Behind
Dead
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Glow

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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.
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