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She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
Author
Autobiographer
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Journalist
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Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
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Weeping
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Flow
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