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To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

Ed Begley, Jr.

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Ed Begley, Jr.
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 16
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