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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Almost
Happy
Woman
Every
Men
Drives
Absolutely
Truly
Crazy

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