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There were several times when i laughed out loud listening to it. Ever wonder how he might have come up with that title. Had the lovable curmudgeon, famous for his sidesplitting essays about his familys dysfunction and his. Its quintessential sedaris theres always a laughoutloud moment just around the corner.
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