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Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Truman Streckfus Persons
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