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Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
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Arcadia
California
People
Handle
Reader
Cannot
Person
Everything
Book
Different
Every
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