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What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

Charles Frazier

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Charles Frazier
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: November 4
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Asheville
North Carolina
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