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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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