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It's not that today is the first day of the rest of my life, but that now is all there is of my life.

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
Rest
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Firsts
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Life

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