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“My own life would make a pretty dull story, I think, and I envy him as I drive to work on a cold Minnesota morning across the Mississippi River with its coal barges still struggling upstream like so many of us nowadays.”

Quote by Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor

English biography, 120-180 words more

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