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Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Somehow
Week
Fact
Facts
Two
Thing
Startled
Survived
Passed

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