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I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Typewriter
Typewriters
Spent
Room
Rooms
Alone
Life

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