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A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
Author
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Everett
Pennsylvania
Dean Ray Koontz
Aaron Wolfe
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Darkness
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Ravine
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Lake
Lakes
Wings
Merely
Silent

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