“Of all the secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood the most divine was humor.”

— Rebecca Wells , book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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American writer 1952

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“Of all the secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood the most divine was humor.”

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