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It was cold and clammy in the stone cell they called it the cooler, and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.

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Upton Sinclair
Age: 90 †
Born: 1878
Born: September 20
Died: 1968
Died: November 25
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