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Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.

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Walter Cronkite
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: November 4
Died: 2009
Died: July 17
Journalist
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Saint Joseph
Missouri
Walter Leland Cronkite
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