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Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Life
Hampshire
Screwed
Hotel
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Nothing

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