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Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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