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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.

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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
Seems
Boxes
Stumps
Sometimes
Bunch
Indistinguishable
Life
Ground
Crayon
Soon
Rounded
Smudged
Missing
Lined
Wrappers
Color
Colors
Pointy
Perfect
Tragic
Unbearably
Order
Bright
Crayons

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