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Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.
Jane Bowles
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Jane Bowles
Age: 56 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 22
Died: 1973
Died: May 4
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