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At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Woods
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Time

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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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