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I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

Debra Hamel

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Debra Hamel
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Historian
Historian Of Classical Antiquity
New Haven
Connecticut
Debra Louise Hamel
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