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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
Dismal
Tide
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Thing

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