“I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.”

— William Least Heat-Moon , book Blue Highways

Part Ten, Chapter 4.
Blue Highways (1982)

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Ted Bundy (1946–1989) American serial killer

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