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If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.
Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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