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But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Awareness
Turn
Head
Turns
Away
Noise
Decide
Anymore

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