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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Much
Long
Life
Rocky
Ugliness
Plenty
Possibility
Human
Humans

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