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And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.

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Donna Tartt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
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Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
Yore
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Walton
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