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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

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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
Orleans
Sixteen
Learned
Firsts
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Life
Dostoevsky
Whores

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