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I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.

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Augusten Burroughs
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: October 23
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Powdered
Packet
Monkeys
Sea
Water
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