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Listen, three eyes, he said, don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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Douglas Noel Adams
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