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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Overwhelms
America
Thing

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