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The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
David Eagleman
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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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