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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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