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" We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds. "

Maeve Binchy

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Heroes

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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Young

Beard

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Conor Oberst

Looking

Music

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Ian Mckellen

You

Language

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