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But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

Olive Ann Burns

Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, "By dang, I can do it!" then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.

Olive Ann Burns

They ain't no feelin' in the world like takin' on somebody wilted and near bout gone, and you do what you can, and then all a-sudden the pore thang starts to put out new growth and git well.

Olive Ann Burns

Olive Ann Burns

Olive Ann Burns

Born: July 17, 1924

Died: July 4, 1990 (aged 65)

Bio: Olive Ann Burns was an American writer from Georgia best known for her single completed novel, Cold Sassy Tree, published in 1984.

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