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Life is always walking up to us and saying, Come on in, the living's fine, and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

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Russell Baker
Age: 93 †
Born: 1925
Born: August 14
Died: 2019
Died: January 21
Autobiographer
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Morrisonville
Virginia
Russell Wayne Baker
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