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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Sculptor
Writer
Douglas Campbell Coupland
Capacity
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Feelings
Nothing
Real
Loneliness
Price
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Lonely

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