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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Within
Covered
Though
Trees
May
Snow
Self
Winter
Unrecognizable
Even
Following
Selves
Thing
Spring
Dressed
Never
Scene
Occur
Tree
Imagined

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