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I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

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Brian Andreas
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 17
Artist
Painter
Writer
Iowa City
Iowa
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Geography
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Mountains
Boundaries
Rivers
Mountain
Pay
Secret
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Mountaineering

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