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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
Crash
Loud
Impossible
Almost
Sound

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