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I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things. Like war, Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. And jumping off rooftops. And lighting their farts on fire, she says.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
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