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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Walter Kirn

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Someone
Long
Hunted
Hunt
Hunts
Witch
Loves
Everyone
Else

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