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Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
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Essayist
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Novelist
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New York City
New York
Arthur Asher Miller
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Lifetime
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