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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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