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Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.

Dennis Lehane

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Dennis Lehane
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Dorchester
Massachusetts
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Waking
Blinks
Without
Spent
Yawns
Present
Surfaced
Almost
Natal
State
Shards
History
Chronological
Order
Shuffling
Past
Blink
Fortifying

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