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It is the music which makes it what it is it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair
Age: 90 †
Born: 1878
Born: September 20
Died: 1968
Died: November 25
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