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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Something
Check
Checks
Breathing
Alive
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We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.
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Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.
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