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Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
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The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.
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