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all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

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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
Wanted
Country
Sneak
Disappear
Somewhere
Everybody
Night
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