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If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?

Calvin Trillin

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
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Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
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