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Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.
Michael Dorris
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Michael Dorris
Age: 52 †
Born: 1945
Born: January 30
Died: 1997
Died: April 10
Anthropologist
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Louisville
Kentucky
Milou North
Michael Anthony Dorris
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