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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
Author
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Time
Tomorrow
Assignments
Grow
Skip
Grows
Inventor
Back
Invent
Firsts
Machine
Come
Dumb
First
Yesterday
Assignment
Take
Machines
Calvin

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