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The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.
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