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What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

Neal Shusterman

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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
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Full
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Forget
Seats
Often
Sees
Easy
Rules
Back
Compassion
Human
Please
Humans
Saying
Regiments
Really
Takes
Expediency

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