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As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.
Robert Caro
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Robert Caro
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: October 30
Historian
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New York City
New York
Robert Allan Caro
Robert A. Caro
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