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How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Facts
Reduced
Two
Basic
Life
Complete
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Name
Meagre
Names
Tombstone
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Dates
Last
Reduction

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