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Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
Accordionist
Author
Musician
Novelist
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Lemony Snicket
Except
Skeleton
Perhaps
Skeletons
Books
Stretched
Book
Shelves
Nothing
Adult
Time
Adults
Fronts
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