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What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.

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Erich Segal
Age: 72 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 16
Died: 2010
Died: January 17
Actor
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Classical Scholar
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Brooklyn
New York
Erich Wolf Segal
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