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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Enough
Grim
Life
Uplifting
Pregnancy
Babies
Baby
Turns
Funny
Young

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