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When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

Christopher Bollen

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Christopher Bollen
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Fence
Limit
Create
Keep
Also
People
Mobility

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