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Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.
John McPhee
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John McPhee
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 8
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Writer
Princeton
New Jersey
John Angus McPhee
Morning
Nonfiction
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Hell
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