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Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

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Matthew Quick
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
Camden
New Jersey
Pay
Attention
Playbooks
Moment
Reaches
Tell
Signs
Moments
Gotta
Back
Telling
Life
Reach
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Sin

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