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Death is an old friend I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
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