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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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New York City
New York
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Quiet
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Thicker
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