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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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