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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

Alan Ball

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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Alan Erwin Ball
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