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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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