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Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Enough
Trying
Farm
Make
Farms
People
York
Living
Money
Back
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