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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.

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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
Loses
Sort
Ancillary
Everybody
Anyway
Friends
Tells
Another
Pick
Come
Picks
Mean
Friend
Important
Lose

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