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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

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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Mysterious
Intelligent
Known
Beautiful
Love
Rarest
Virtuous

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