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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on December 24



Matthew Arnold  (1822)
Mary Higgins Clark  (1927) 
Dana Gioia  (1950)
Juan Ramon Jiménez  (1881) 
Stephenie Meyer  (1973)

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