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Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
Richard Brautigan
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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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You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
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Her sunny side was always up.
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In a Cafe I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.
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