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You'll feel a tingling in your chest, says a surgeon. It's nothing to worry about.

Neal Shusterman

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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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Surgeon
Surgeons
Chest
Chests
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Worry
Nothing
Feel
Tingling

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