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Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Dismayed
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Thoroughly
Confused
Cry
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