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I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
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