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Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.
Jonathan Maberry
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Jonathan Maberry
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 18
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Science Fiction Writer
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Shane MacDougall
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