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By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Time
Evening
Life
Rock
Rocks
Pounded
Felt
Waterfall
Feel
Waterfalls
Must
Sore
Feels
Approaching
Long
Arrived

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