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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
Hugh Prather
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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
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Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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