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If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.

Neil Gaiman

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