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We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.
Christopher Bollen
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Christopher Bollen
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
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The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.
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