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From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.

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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Lawyer
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New York City
New York
Andrew Henry Vachss
Humans
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Another
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