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Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Orphans
Noted
Orphan
Rare
Adults
Among
Happiness
Wilbur
Delirious

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