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At the typewriter you find out who you are.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight.
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