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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Upstream
Rocky
Urgency
Fight
Takes
Fighting
Every
Undercurrent
Kind
Foothold

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