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Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Truman Garcia Capote
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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
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Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
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