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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

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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
Much
Really
Time
Asleep
Nightmare
Depression
Wake
Didn
Better

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