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Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

Alfred Noyes

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Alfred Noyes
Age: 77 †
Born: 1880
Born: September 16
Died: 1958
Died: June 25
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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