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It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.

Jon Krakauer

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Jon Krakauer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 12
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