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Ben Wiley
Year: Senior
Major: French and English
Home town: Richmond
Backpack contents: Notebook, binder, personal checks, Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle, Jean de Lery’s Histoire d’un Voyage Faict en la Terre du Bresil
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