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Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.
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When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.
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