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Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
Actor
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Autobiographer
Journalist
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Playwright
Screenwriter
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Truman Streckfus Persons
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Alcohol
Tummy
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Incurable
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Champagne

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