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- Kathy Reichs
"Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprote..."
"I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset."