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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
Woman
Tide
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Tides
Still
Birthday
Always
Stands
Men
Thirty
Time
Wait
Waiting
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