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The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

Douglas Coupland

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