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Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Brooklyn
New York
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Silence
Pinched
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