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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

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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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Sometimes
Real
Things
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Sighed

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