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I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

Calvin Trillin

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
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Texas
Someone
Enough
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Chili

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