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What you have to do is break all the rules.

Andrew Wyeth

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Andrew Wyeth
Age: 91 †
Born: 1917
Born: July 12
Died: 2009
Died: January 16
Painter
Visual Artist
Writer
Chadds Ford
Pennsylvania
Andrew Wyerh
Andrew Newell Wyeth
Ssu Wei
Wei-ssu
Weisi
Andoryū Waiesu
Ėndri︠u︡ Uaĭet
Andrew Nowell Wyeth
Andrew N. Wyeth
Break
Freedom
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