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Problem-solving is hunting it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

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Thomas Harris
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 11
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Jackson
Tennessee
William Thomas Harris III
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Hunting
Pleasure
Born
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Savage
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Savages

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