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There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.

Frank McCourt

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Frank McCourt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: August 19
Died: 2009
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Francis McCourt
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Sentences
Stroll
Simple
Decisions
Paragraphs
Many
Sing
Hallway
Way
Laugh
Cough
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Hallways
Galore
Saying
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Bellow
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Bark
Trill
Head
Calls
Hiss

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A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.
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Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.
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My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
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