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I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

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
High
Principal
School
Cook
Play
Cooks
Harmonicas
Teachers
Harmonica
Plays
Daydream
Students
Janitor
Teacher
Cafeteria
Everybody
Daydreaming

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