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Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

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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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