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If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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