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Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Stories
Truth
Many
Popular
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