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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Girl
Died
Feelings
Married
Tuesdays
Tell
Lose
Colon
Something
Loses
Pork
Years
Pretty
Tuesday
Like
Wife
Forty
Stop
Cancer
Feeling
Sorry

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