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I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back.

Jay Asher

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Came
School
Back
Find
Might
Never
React
People
Decided
Students

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