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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Bring
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Geisha
Taken
Bridge
Children
Bridges
Every
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