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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
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