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I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that’s just what I’ve gone and done.

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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
Poet
Trade Unionist
Translator
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Gary Snyder
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