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Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

Lisa Unger

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Lisa Unger
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 26
Author
Novelist
Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
Lisa Miscione
Thinking
People
Absence
Presence
Evil
Many
Something
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