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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

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Sam Shepard
Age: 73 †
Born: 1943
Born: November 5
Died: 2017
Died: July 27
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Samuel Sam Shepard Rogers III
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