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If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
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Leave
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The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
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