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They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.

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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
Blogger
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Science Fiction Writer
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Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
James Christopher Frey
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