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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

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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
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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