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Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Horses
Horse
Fear
Right
Love
Absurdity

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