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But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor
Neal Shusterman
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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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...You know something, don't you? I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific. Just answer the question. True/false or multiple choice?
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Then Jix locked eyes with him and said very calmly, If you hit her, I will open my mouth wide enough to swallow you whole, force you through my bowels, then out my other end. Avalon scowled at him. You can't do that. Try me, Jix said. Avalon backed off, then angrily stormed away, and Jix winked at Jill. One in five.
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History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.
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If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.
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Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.
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