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It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.

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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
Never
Slow
Gets
Move
Hand
Tease
Funny
Flame
Moving
Burn
Hands
Quick
Enough
Flames

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