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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
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Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
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