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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Lloyd Alexander

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Seizes
Seize
Along
Whatever
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Something

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