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As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
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