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We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Nostalgia
Camera
Cameras
Picture
Sake
Sound
Makes
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