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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

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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
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Left
Hands
Nothing
Handful
Suddenly
Crazy
Stars

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