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William Richard Guy grew up in Kansas, where he was plagued by run-ins with the law before marrying at 18 and enlisting in the Vietnam War.
When he returned home, his wife was with another man, and he moved to Washington, D.C., where he hosted a late-night radio show.
In 1968, got caught up in the race riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and was forced to move again, this time to British Columbia, Canada, where he met his second wife and settled down.
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