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A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
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Ray Douglas Bradbury
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