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To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
Robert Harris
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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
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Robert Dennis Harris
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