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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

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
Putting
Adults
Lessons
Dangerous
Books
Young
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Adult

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