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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
Author
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Bird
Taste
Must
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Burp
Burping
Bugs
Birds

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