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God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn’t know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he’s picking up on that.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
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Something
Freaking
Picking
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