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We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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