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The pain is unrelenting one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

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William Styron
Age: 81 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 11
Died: 2006
Died: November 1
Military Personnel
Novelist
Writer
Newport News
Virginia
William Clark Styron
Jr.
Even
Nails
Abandon
Wherever
Bed
Goes
Suffering
Unrelenting
Pain
Briefly
Doe
Attached

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