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You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
Audiobook Narrator
Librettist
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford
Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine.
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