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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Thornton Wilder

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