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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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