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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.
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As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.
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The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
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Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
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why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
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