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I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.

Jerry Garcia

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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
Banjoist
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Film Director
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Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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