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If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away, Alex cheerfully retorted. I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

Jon Krakauer

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