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Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Novelist
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Everett
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Dean Ray Koontz
Aaron Wolfe
Brian Coffey
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