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What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

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Jon Krakauer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 12
Explorer
Journalist
Mountaineer
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
Smiling
Arms
Running
Would

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