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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

Cormac McCarthy

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