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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
John Cheever
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John Cheever
Age: 70 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Diarist
Novelist
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Quincy
Massachusetts
John William Cheever
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