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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Schooling
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Eyebrows
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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