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It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
Journalist
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Reporter
Screenwriter
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Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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