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I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

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Jonathan Tropper
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 19
Executive Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Riverdale
New York City
Probably
Pain
Catches
Right
Bullet
Feels
Nothingness
Never
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