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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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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Brooklyn
New York
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Hell
Natural
Nurse
Scared

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