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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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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
Charmed
Bright
Dull
Fiction
History
Women
Men
Homely

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