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There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

Grace Paley

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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
Activist
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Writer
The Bronx
New York City
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Relationship
Blood
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Family
Money
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It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
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I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
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