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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

Carl Hiaasen

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Carl Hiaasen
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 12
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