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Norman MacCaig

Birthday: November 14, 1910
Deathday: January 23, 1996
Category: Scottish Poet
Type: Poet
National: Scottish

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A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

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