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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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