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His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.

Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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La Junta
Colorado
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Kenneth Elton Kesey
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O. U. Levon
Everybody
Strain
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Lift
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Shakes
Trying
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Something
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Golly
Think
Feet
Cement
Thinking
Hear
Grind

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