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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.

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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
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