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CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Cartoonist
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Washington
District of Columbia
First
Yesterday
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Take
Machines
Calvin
Time
Tomorrow
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Grow
Skip
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Inventor
Back
Invent
Firsts
Machine
Come
Dumb

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