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Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Behind
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Unrecognizable
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Washed
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