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Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

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Allen Tate
Age: 79 †
Born: 1899
Born: November 19
Died: 1979
Died: February 9
Author
Literary Critic
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Winchester
Kentucky
John Orley Allen Tate
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Understand
Science
Truth
Everything
Solution
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Argument

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