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You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Weapons
Accidentally
Terrible
Respects
Lines
Poems
Books
Buried
Care
Iron
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Accidents
Book
Handle
Long
Ancient
Wrought

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