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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Thinking
People
Happier
Hours
Two
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