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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Went
Right
Really
Things
Considering
Died

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