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[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bobby
Toms
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Finally
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