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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Might
Like
Parade
Parades
Barely
Looked
Toward
Moving
Lost

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