"My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.“


-Paul Thomas Anderson

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My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

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