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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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