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There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.

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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
People
Coming
Ready
Dies
Wrong
Understand
Death
Better

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