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

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Wants
Particular
Understand
Every
Love
Mystery
Deep

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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
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