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All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

Hugh Prather

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
Complicated
Simple
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Life

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