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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.

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
Thinking
Anymore
Huge
Wants
Brain
Bigs
Doesn
Shift
Thing
Imagined
Think
Sudden

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