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If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?
Padgett Powell
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Padgett Powell
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 25
Novelist
Gainesville
Florida
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