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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
Bill Ayers
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Bill Ayers
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
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Glen Ellyn
Illinois
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I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.
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