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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
Author
Novelist
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Everett
Pennsylvania
Dean Ray Koontz
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