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The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

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Jon Krakauer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 12
Explorer
Journalist
Mountaineer
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
Sweet
Geology
Light
Ache
Longing
Desert
Shape
Sere
Shapes
Slant
Clean
Amplified
Gave
Sharpened

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