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Joseph Harvey Riley

American ornithologist (1873-1941).

Born September 19th, 1873 in Falls Church.

Died December 17th, 1941 at 68 years old

Occupations
curator, ornithologist, zoologist

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner