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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

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Bill Walton
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
Basketball Player
La Mesa
California
William Theodore Walton
William Theodore Walton III
Life
Excruciating
Unrelenting
Goes
Pain
Away
Ends
Years
Never
Debilitating

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