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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?

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

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