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Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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Everyone
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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