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  "textContent": "Tracy Kidder, an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer who turned subjects such as home construction, computer engineering, and life in a nursing home into unexpected bestsellers, has died. He was 80. Kidder's family said he died of lung cancer Tuesday in Boston. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book...",
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