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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
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