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most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.

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Matthew Quick
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
Camden
New Jersey
Loses
Though
Ability
Even
Always
People
Silver
Lose

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