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I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

Jennifer Donnelly

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Jennifer Donnelly
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 29
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Port Chester
New York
Black
Houses
House
Mad
Fuses
Night
Straight
Rooftops
May
Bed
Beds
Never
Blow
Fuse
Comfortable
Rockets
Bits
Convenient
Stop
Wretched

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