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I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were cowboys killing the Indians, following the Wild West stories. All of this combined into a very strange culture, which is frightened.

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Noam Chomsky
Age: 95
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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