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Augusten burroughs is the author of running with scissors, dry, magical thinking. February 5, 1914 august 2, 1997 was an american writer and visual artist. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Aug 26, 2014 this feature is not available right now. You will be glad to know that right now junky william s burroughs pdf is available on our online library. Burroughs last words collection, in processing 10 bound volumes and 2 boxes, are held at the kenneth spencer research library, university of kansas. Burroughs was a trust fund kid who fucked around a lot, yonqui william burroughs a bunch of drugs, had a wife and child he abandoned, and at least once slapped the hell out of a yonqui william burroughs for no reason before trying to kill it.
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