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The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

Dennis Lehane

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Dennis Lehane
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dorchester
Massachusetts
Warning
Lays
Loneliness
Another
Without
Bare
Shocking

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