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I have not only found good health, but perfect health I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.
Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair
Age: 90 †
Born: 1878
Born: September 20
Died: 1968
Died: November 25
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