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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

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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
Orphaned
Violent
Filled
War
Country
Children

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