Rocco
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Charlaine Harris:
I've always wanted to know, what kind of name is Sookie? Is it short for something? A nickname? When I read the first book (many years ago....long before True Blood) I thought it's got to be a nickname, she'll explain it later. Several books later I thought, must be a name popular in the south, and since I'm from the north I just never ran across it. I miss that series, I never really liked True Blood, to different fr
Charlaine Harris
Sookie is a very old Southern nickname. My grandmother's best friend was a Sookie. It's not often encountered now. It seemed the perfect name for a character who in some ways was a very old-fashioned girl (in others, not so much!).
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Charlaine Harris:
Could you tell me where in Midnight Crossroad that says about possessing evil?
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