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What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Simple
June
Running
Prosperous
Thrill
Privileged
Shock
Alive
Scandalously
Almost
Errand
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Errands

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