I am the erstwhile American Painter Rabo Karabekian, a one-eyed man.  I was born of immigrant parents in San Ignacio, California, in 1916.  I begin this autobiography seventy-one years later.  To those unfamiliar with the ancient mysteries of arithmetic, that makes the year 1987.

 

From: Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut

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