By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam. - John Irving
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By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam.
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John Irving
John Winslow Irving (born 2 March 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (for The Cider House Rules, based on his novel of the same name).
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John Winslow Irving
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John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
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