Why Sue Monk Kidd Calls Her 30th Birthday a "Great Absurdity" | SuperSoul Sunday | OWN

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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 would be a writer, despite having no prior experience. Find out why Sue says that moment was both divine and absurd. For more on #supersoulsunday, visit WatchOWN.tv/SSS 

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