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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
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Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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