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Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

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Darren Shan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 2
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London
England
D. B. Shan
Darren Dash
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What are you doing? Looking for my fangs. We don't grow fangs you idiot!
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Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?
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