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I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.

Augusten Burroughs

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Augusten Burroughs
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: October 23
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
East
Limbs
Grateful
Bus
Losing
Destined
Four
Accident
Things
Village
Accidents
Drunk
Wreck
Ridiculous
Wrecks

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