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No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

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Daniel H. Wilson
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 6
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