Norman MacCaig quote

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.
Norman MacCaig
Norman MacCaig
Born: Nov 14, 1910
Died: Jan 23, 1996

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Lost, Seven, About, Ten, Ten Years, Terrible, Terrible Thing, Years, Friends, Closest, Getting, Eight, Dying, Your, Thing, Start, Last

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