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And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

Dean Koontz

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