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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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London
England
D. B. Shan
Darren Dash
Darren Shan
House
Stepped
Home
Wandering
Come
Threshold
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Eighteen
Years
Wander
Finally
Lived
Boys
Gulped

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