“When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.”

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Wilderness

1961

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Remember the Alamo!

1958

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A place to come to

1977

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The cave

1959

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