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Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Shuffling
Ashes
Entire
Along
Light

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