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If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

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Art Buchwald
Age: 81 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 20
Died: 2007
Died: January 17
Columnist
Essayist
Humorist
Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Mount Vernon
New York
Hell
Today
Time
Admitting
Nostalgia
Hung
Pretend
Sadness
Yesterday

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