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I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
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