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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age: 43 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 24
Died: 1940
Died: December 21
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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St Paul
Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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Montana
Across
Bruises
Mountain
Giant
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Sunset
Giants
Bruise
Mountains
Darkened
Lays
Arteries
Spread
Poisoned

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