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If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.

Darren Shan

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Darren Shan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 2
Author
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London
England
D. B. Shan
Darren Dash
Darren Shan
Never
Blood
Known
Revolting
Wrong
Returned
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Circus
Death
Disgusting
Running
Lays
Night
Awful
Ideas
Ahead

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