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We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Grow
Grows
Forever
Gone
Remember
Everything
Time

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