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|title=The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

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|date=June 2007

|isbn=978-0552772549

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When Bill Bryson was a boy, he used to watch tornados ripping across the horizon from the safety of his grandfather's farm. A twister would sometimes threaten to head their way, but never did. "We didn't know it at the time," he writes, "but it was killing people as it went."