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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

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Garry Trudeau
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 21
Cartoonist
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New York City
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Garretson Beekman Trudeau
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