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Don Meyer
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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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