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It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay. - China Sorrows -
Derek Landy
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Derek Landy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 23
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Are you kidding? I jumped off a building -- of course I'm hurt.
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Just leave her alone. You're annoying her.' 'I'm not annoying her. She doesn't even know how to be annoyed. She's, what, a week old?' 'She's three months.' 'She's three months in our years, but what is she in baby years?
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I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.
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Oh, China. How I have missed you.' 'And I have missed you, Eliza. But don't worry, next time my aim will be better.
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