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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: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Nothing
Storm
Something
Constantly
Life
Behinds
Behind
Moment
Left
Unrecognizable
Away
Washed
Moments
Barren

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