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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Able
Break
Chains
Grin
Men
Face
Bed
Trousers
Lasts
Seemed
Anatomy
Last
Spring
Bind
Faces
Walk
Pillow
Living
Room
Chain
Away
Rooms
Visit
Night
Walks
Surely
Spectral

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