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Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Everybody
Somehow
Decadent
Actors
Lovers
Sweaty
Lonely
Dean
Come
Bird
Eccentric
Important
Looked
Handsome
Like
Broken
Birds
Land
California
Movie
Wild
Exiled

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