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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.

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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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Inside
Corridor
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Corridors
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Guts
Fish
Fishes

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