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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.
Pauline Kael
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Pauline Kael
Age: 82 †
Born: 1919
Born: June 19
Died: 2001
Died: September 3
Film Critic
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Petaluma
California
Felt
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Funeral
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