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I had real plans for my next decade and felt i'd worked hard enough to earn it. will i really not live to see my children married? to watch the world trade center rise again? to read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like henry kissinger and joseph ratzinger?
-Christopher Hitchens
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I Had Real Plans For My Next

Christopher Hitchens
I had real plans for my next decade and felt i'd worked hard enough to earn it. will i really not live to see my children married? to watch the world trade center rise again? to read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like henry kissinger and joseph ratzinger?
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