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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

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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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Desperate
Seemed
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