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… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign it is at least a form of being human.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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Least
Form
Human
Humans
Life
Exhaustion

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