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In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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