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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

Ned Vizzini

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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
Times
Hope
Jars
Give
Shift
Back
Hasn
Enough
Supposed
Sometimes
Brain
Giving
Maybe
Never
Happened

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