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Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

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