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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Makes
Anything
Funeral
Awful
Laugh
Laughing

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