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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive hence we remember them.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Thus
Hero
Alive
Keep
Remember
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Heroes

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