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Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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