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Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
Robert Hunter
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Robert Hunter
Age: 78 †
Born: 1941
Born: June 23
Died: 2019
Died: September 23
Guitarist
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Arroyo Grande
California
Robert C. Christie Hunter
Robert Burns
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