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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Disgust
Disgusting
Nearly
Loud
Within
Feelings
Else
Everything
Drowned

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