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Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story rumors don't care what's true.

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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