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Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

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Jeff VanderMeer
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: July 7
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Science Fiction Writer
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Pennsylvania
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I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.
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Silence creates it's own violence.
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