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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

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O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
Journalist
Writer
Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
Oliver Henry
Moving
Two
Together
Round
Littles
Rounds
Best
Pictures
Little
Field
World
Fields
Walking

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