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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Make
Life
Passed
Empty
Along
Happiness
Part

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