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A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Flesh
Turned
Toward
Single
Face
Faces
Peace
Upward
Time
Ecstasy

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