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There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
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