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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

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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
Dead
Started
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