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There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

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Walker Percy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 28
Died: 1990
Died: May 10
Author
Novelist
Philosopher
Physician
Writer
Birmingham
Alabama
Men
Seeing
Like
Woman
Pain
Another
Earth
Look
Looks
Way
Looked

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