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The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Past
Better
Life
Haunts
Loss
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