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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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