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The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

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Christopher Fry
Age: 97 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 18
Died: 2005
Died: June 30
Playwright
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
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