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Despite being an expert on The Color Purple, did you learn anything new during your writing and research process? Definitely. I didn’t know how intimate the The Mask Goes Over Your Nose Shirt Additionally,I will love this characters were in Alice’s family. We usually associate Albert with her grandfather, but it’s only through reading interviews or work from her over years, or talking to her, that we learn the character Sofia was based on her mother, or that Shug was a real person who shared a husband with her grandmother, who Celie was based on. So, when all the attacks about the book came, they weren’t just attacking characters on a page—these were real people and that pain of those attacks was very real for Alice.

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