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In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Charles McCarthy
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