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However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.

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Chris Cleave
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 14
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Someday
Disappear
Shining
Moon
However
Must
Long
Disappears
Shine

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