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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Companionship
Compromise
Friendship
Sacrifice
Came
Ends

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