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Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.

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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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