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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Life
People
Lonesome
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