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Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Jerome K. Jerome
Age: 67 †
Born: 1859
Born: August 25
Died: 1927
Died: June 16
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