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Jimmy Buffett: Oh, The Stories He Can Tell

Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 17 December 1989

"IF THE NUNS at school saw me signing like this, they'd hit me on the knuckles with a ruler," says Jimmy Buffett, scribbling his name in little more than a second. On the other hand, the sisters at St. Ignatius in Spring Hill, Ala., probably never expected Jimmy Buffett to be at Crown Books on K Street, signing 900 copies of his new book of short stories, Tales From Margaritaville, in less than two hours.

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