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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Good
Hobbes
Pittsburgh
Wonder
Dies
Mean

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