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You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
Writer
Akron
Ohio
May
Someday
Discover
Realize
Realizing
Lost
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