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Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

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Darren Shan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 2
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D. B. Shan
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