Carolina QuotesPeople will say bout anything. That don’t mean I have to believe it. What I see with my own eyes, that I believe.
Andy Duncan Carolinian
Source
Lincoln in Frogmore (p. 160)
- work
- Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
- year
- 2000
- locator
- p. 160
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