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It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

Walter Dean Myers

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Walter Dean Myers
Age: 76 †
Born: 1937
Born: August 12
Died: 2014
Died: July 1
Novelist
Writer
Martinsburg
West Virginia
Walter Milton Myers
Weaken
Temptation
Excuse
Biggest
Hard
Sometimes
Life

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