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Richard Brautigan
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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
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Tacoma
Washington
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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