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Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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City of Liverpool
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