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However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.

Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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