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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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