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I got bored, he says. Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Apartment
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