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The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Autobiographer
Biographer
Journalist
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Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
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Complexity
Simplicity
Beauty

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