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Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want to talk about those things. It's not that these things don't happen, but when they're shared in a fictional setting, for some reason they make some people uncomfortable.

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