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I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.
William Gibson
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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