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I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.

Sherwood Anderson

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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
Novelist
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Buck Fever
Long
Perhaps
Something
Dead
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Becomes
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American
Away
Provincial
Happens
Stays
Littles
York
Little
Afraid

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