"Nostalgia, as his Uncle Joshua had said, ain't what it used to be."
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The Tents of Wickedness (1959)
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Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries (February 27, 1910 β September 28, 1993) was an American comic novelist, short-story writer, and editor.
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