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The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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