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weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

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Jon Krakauer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 12
Explorer
Journalist
Mountaineer
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
Irreparable
Mind
Weeping
Betray
Measure
Loss
Taking
Huge
Betraying
Sense

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