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If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.
Richard Brautigan
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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
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Richard Gary Brautigan
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The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
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Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.
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