“By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.”

—  John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Source: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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