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Our memory is a monster you forget it - it does not.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Doe
Monster
Monsters
Memory
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