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Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
Author
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
People
Occasional
Delusion
Embrace
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Rather
Preposterous
Faces
Precarious
Lives
Bleak
Truth
Grip

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