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One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Lapses
Responsibility
Brief
Moral
Judgement
Found
Creature
Everything
Massive
Creatures
Took
Lapse
Unravel
Mistake

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