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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
Nowadays
Goodbye
Candle
Lightning
Blow
Menagerie
World
Laura
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