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May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.
Marisha Pessl
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Marisha Pessl
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 26
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