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No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of Here I come to save the day versus Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
Sarah Vowell
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Sarah Vowell
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 27
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