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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

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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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Ground

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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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