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It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it all at once.

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Seriously
Take
Hard
Life

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