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The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.

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Augusten Burroughs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 23
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Course
Savage
Dark
Savages
People
Cruel
Deeply
Fully
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Sides
Unaccountable
Courses
Uncivilized

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