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Your life story is a novel and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
Author
Novelist
Playwright
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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father
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père
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Two
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Life
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People
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Living
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