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What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Hugh Prather

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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