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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.

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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
Ruts
Stuck
Brain
Didn
Back
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