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Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

Jack Kerouac

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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
Holy
Faces
Floating
America
Dawn
Flowers
Jazz
Tired
Air
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