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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

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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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Mahal
Smelled
Moonlight
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