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I like it when stories are left open.

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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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