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Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Everything
Drank
Wondered
Beer

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