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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

Douglas Coupland

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