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She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Everything
Possibly
Nothing
Witness
Judging
Among
Maybe
White
Keenly
Stills
Determining
Still
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