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Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
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Politician
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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