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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Feeling
Stone
Feelings
Misery
Stones
Look
Leaving
Looks
Raised
Men
Behinds
Wall
Behind
Spoken

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