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I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Littles
Little
Trying
Make
Surreal
Everyone

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