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I'm bored, she said. Learn how to tap-dance, he suggested, without turning around.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.
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