When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pat…

Flannery O'Connor
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When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax. ✨ Flannery O'Connor, Rosemary M. Magee (1987). Conversations with Flannery O'Connor, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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