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A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

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Michael Lewis
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: October 15
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New Orleans
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Michael M. Lewis
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