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Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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