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He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.

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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
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Away
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Life
Ruffian
Risked
Prince
Walking

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