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How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
Douglas Adams
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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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