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Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
Michigan
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I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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