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If you don't get a goodnight kiss, you get Kafka dreams.

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
Author
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Hobbes
Kiss
Kissing
Dreams
Dream
Goodnight
Kafka

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