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Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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Screenwriter
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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Wondered
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I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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