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Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

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