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The 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature: Dreaming Up a Winner

I had the strangest dream last night: The Nobel Prize for Literature was announced, and the winner for 2012 was...Romy Schneider. Lets hear it for 1960's Euro-glam! You might easily wonder how much ti...

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