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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Awful
Silence
Heard
Beautiful

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