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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

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
Feeling
Forget
Feelings
Feel
Wasted
Feels
Useless
Kind
Awful
Broken
Dead

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