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The longer you wait, and this is true, the slower the hands will move.

Jay Asher

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Slower
Wait
Move
Longer
Waiting
Moving
True
Hands

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