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This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
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San Francisco County
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