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There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Two
Adventurers
Find
Adventurer
Kind
Secretly
Hoping
Kinds
Adventure
Travel
Truly

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