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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Fiercely
Wisely
Dying
Rest
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