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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Nobody
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I just want to not be me.
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