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And when love is over when the diner of love seems closed from the outside you want all those hours back along with anything you left at the lover’s house and maybe a couple of things which aren’t technically yours on the grounds that you wasted a portion of your life and those hours have all gone southside.

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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
Accordionist
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