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My Awkward Brush with Greatness: Meeting Kurt Vonnegut

September 2, 2013 by roberrera Leave a Comment

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There was an old guy wandering around the lobby of the office building where I work. He looked vaguely familiar, but I didn’t place him until the desk clerk called his name. “Hey…aren’t you Kurt Vonnegut?” It was Kurt Vonnegut. He looked the same as he did on the back cover of my copy of […]

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