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How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade.

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Dennis Lehane
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 4
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Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dorchester
Massachusetts
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Please
Hold
Fade
Fades
Smell
Supposed

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