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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.

Richard Brautigan

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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
Men
Watched
Cafe
Lover
Certificate
Bread
Folding
Photograph
Cafes
Lovers
Certificates
Birth
Slice
Dead
Fold
Looking
Folds

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