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I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I could not picture my funeral. Not at all. Mostly because I couldn’t imagine who would attend or what they would say.

Jay Asher

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Without
Continuing
Would
Mostly
Life
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Couldn
Imagine
Else
School
Attend
Everything
Funeral

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