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Why Sue Monk Kidd Calls Her Decision to Become a Writer a "Great Absurdity"

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Why Sue Monk Kidd Calls Her Decision to Become a Writer a 'Great Absurdity'

Why Sue Monk Kidd Calls Her Decision to Become a Writer a "Great Absurdity"

After months of studying Thomas Merton's 'The Seven Storey Mountain,' Sue Monk Kidd began to feel that there was something more for her beyond her life as a wife, mother and nurse.

Then, on her 30th birthday, she marched into the kitchen and told her husband and two children that she was going be a writer, despite having no prior experience.

Find out why Sue says that moment was both divine and absurd.


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