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I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Richard Paul Evans

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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Novelist
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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Human
Humans
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Beauty
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