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I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.
Darren Shan
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Darren Shan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 2
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D. B. Shan
Darren Dash
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