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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Wrong
Experience
Long
Time
Proven
Awful
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