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So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age: 70 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 2
Died: 1907
Died: March 19
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Journalist
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Portsmouth
New Hampshire
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Bottle
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Butting
Suicide
Windowpane
Commit
Morbid
Watching
Kicked
Blue
Orleans

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