“I didn't marry her family.”

—  Ernest Hemingway , book The Garden of Eden

'Of course not. But you always do. Dead or alive.'
David and Colonel John Boyle in Ch. 7
The Garden of Eden (1986)

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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