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Who Will Be Third?

Nick Gillespie | 6.10.2004 4:36 AM

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First Dutch Reagan, now Ray Charles. If the law of celebrity deaths holds true, who will be third? The trick is that the next one must be of equal or greater stature. Hmm, since the Olsen twins already died in New York Minute, the smart money is on John Paul II.

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