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What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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