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Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Brad Meltzer

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Brad Meltzer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 1
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Happen
Beauty
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