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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

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Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
Film Writer
Novelist
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Poet
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Screenwriter
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Columbus
Georgia
Lula Carson Smith
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