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No one thinks Las Vegas is real it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.
Hal Rothman
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Hal Rothman
Age: 48 †
Born: 1958
Born: August 11
Died: 2007
Died: February 25
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Baton Rouge
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