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When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
Gelett Burgess
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Gelett Burgess
Age: 85 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 30
Died: 1951
Died: September 18
Novelist
Poet
Boston
Massachusetts
Frank Gelett Burgess
Alan Braghampton
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