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All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Roberta
Liars
Knew
True
Men

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