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You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

John Green

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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