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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.

Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Seeing
Implicit
Traveling
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Journey

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