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For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
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
Many
Things
Aren
Alone
Fear
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