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If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Anthropologist
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Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
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