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Beautiful is dangerous.

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Neal Shusterman
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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Science Fiction Writer
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Brooklyn
New York
Dangerous
Beautiful

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Lev smiles. Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold
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Fine, Connor tells him. Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen. I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?
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I'm scared, he says.I know, says the nurse.I want you all to go to Hell.That's natural.
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does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?
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Hey, says Hayden, I'm Switzerland neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate. Get lost, Roland tells him. Already am. And Hayden strolls away.
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