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Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

Andre Dubus

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Andre Dubus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 11
Died: 1999
Died: February 24
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Andre Jules Dubus II
Sometime
Expecting
Stopped
Somewhere
Father

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