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Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

Neal Shusterman

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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Brooklyn
New York
Getting
Someone
Impression
Changes
Blind
Darkness

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