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I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.

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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
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World
Generations
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