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A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Candles
Evoke
Restaurant
Candle
Reveries
Restaurants
Bali
Flowers
Evokes
Flower
Isle
Doe
Reverie

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