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Rituals are comforting rituals combat loneliness.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Comforting
Ritual
Combat
Loneliness
Rituals

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