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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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