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. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Time
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Notice
Stop
Moments
Doe
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