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There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
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Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
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