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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

A. A. Milne

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A. A. Milne
Age: 74 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 18
Died: 1956
Died: January 31
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London
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Alan Alexander Milne
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Gracefully
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