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We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us
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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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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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Mythologist
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
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