Authors Peng Shepherd and Anne Tyler show that family is...complicated
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A Spool of Blue Thread
You said a spool of blue thread was going to be her last novel. This is your fourth that you've written since then. You 're talking about your characters as though they're real people, and that you can't controli i ayou could make mercy the mum nicer she youe but no, i'm just trying to make you not blame me for what she did with te cap.
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