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My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.

Alan Moore

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Alan Moore
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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