I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing, the old man said. The…

Ernest Hemingway
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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing, the old man said. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand. ✨ The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
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