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It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Finding
Faces
Stagger
Humans
Amazes
Even
Coughing
Flowing
Searching
Streams
Findings

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