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Make me young, make me young, make me young!

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Rob Archer
Apr 17, 2012
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Listen: As I approach the birthday that inspired Kurt Vonnegut to write one of the greatest novels in American literature - and set his literary characters free - I realize that the final page contains probably the most devastating passage I've ever read. And it ends with this:

I somersaulted lazily and pleasantly through the void, which is my hiding pla…

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