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I like the cover, he said. Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
Douglas Adams
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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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Douglas Noel Adams
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