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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

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Finley Peter Dunne
Age: 68 †
Born: 1867
Born: July 10
Died: 1936
Died: April 24
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Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
Past
Better
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Always
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