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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Love
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