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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

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Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
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Basketball Player
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
Moon
Face
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Future
Bewildering
Immensity
Stood
Spread
Ocean

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