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I do what I do, I said, in order to do something else.

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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
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San Francisco County
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Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.
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