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I would rather be dead than not read

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Annie Proulx
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 22
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Journalist
Librettist
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Norwich
Connecticut
E. Annie Proulx
E.A. Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx
Edna Ann Proulx
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