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James A. Michener Quotes: On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
         

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.


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