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That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Wanted
Everything
World
Collapse
Possible
Dark
Around

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