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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Leap
Anything
Heart
World
Truer
Intuitive

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