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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

Chuck Klosterman

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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
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Journalist
Music Critic
Breckenridge
Minnesota
Charles John Klosterman
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