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Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

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Joan Didion
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: December 5
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Essayist
Journalist
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Sacramento
California
Sky
West
Late
Stuff
Ends
Coast
Afternoon
Brilliant

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