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It must be some book, she said as she knelt down next to the bed...Did that boy give it to you? She asked out of nowhere. By 'it' do you mean herpes? You are too much, Mom said, The book, Hazel. I mean the book.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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