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Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
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Intimacy

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