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Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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