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You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts I learned the value of this at a very young age.

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Matthew Quick
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
Camden
New Jersey
Thoughts
Lose
Learned
Loses
Age
Values
Repetition
Young
Quiet
Value

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