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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.' There's only forward, I repeat. Outward and up, she says.
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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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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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