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It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
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Grocers
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