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Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?

Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?

Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern

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Harper Lee
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Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1926 to 2016; Wikidata Q182658, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182658 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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