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Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

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Derek Landy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 23
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You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know exactly what that someone has just done.' --Skulduggery
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