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First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
Actor
Artist
Author
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
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First
Presents
Mouthful
Gorgeous
Comb
Honey
Squirrel
Breakfast
Combs
Food
Fried
Imagine
Grit
Firsts
Squirrels
Everything
Impatient
Grits

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