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Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.
Gary Paulsen
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Gary Paulsen
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: May 17
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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Gary Melvin Paulsen
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