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Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

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Glen Duncan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 17
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Glen A. Duncan
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