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If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it.

Jay Asher

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Growing
Dragging
Party
Tangled
Getting
Knots
Point
String
Stories
Connecting
Everything
Strings
Would
Keeps
Time
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