Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under…

Flannery O'Connor
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Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (2007). Wise Blood: A Novel, p.86, Macmillan
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Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (2007). Wise Blood: A Novel, p.86, Macmillan

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