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Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

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

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