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Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.

Alex Haley

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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
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Historian
Journalist
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Novelist
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Ithica
New York
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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