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As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
Dean Smith
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Dean Smith
Age: 83 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 28
Died: 2015
Died: February 7
Basketball Coach
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Engineer
Emporia
Kansas
Dean Edwards Smith
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