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Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

James Truslow Adams

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James Truslow Adams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1878
Born: October 18
Died: 1949
Died: May 18
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