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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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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Done
Spangled
Coffin
Coffins
Nails
Star
Son
Stars
Kids

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