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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Motivational
Journey
Lose
Loses
Open
Beckoning
Place
Strangeness
Men
Road
Travel

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