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Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.
Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.
Approximate author period: c. 1951 AD · modern
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- Bill Bryson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1951 AD · modern
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