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I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

Thomas Pynchon

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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
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Glen Cove
New York
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