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We weren't going anywhere, Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.

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
Smile
Sounding
Instead
Nick
Sound
Heavily
Trying
Wound
Going
Charming
Weren
Wounds
Anywhere

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