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Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

Ransom Riggs

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Ransom Riggs
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: February 3
Film Director
Journalist
Photographer
Screenwriter
Writer
Maryland
United States
Doesn
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Crying
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Cry
Human
Forgotten
Humans
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Mean
Laughing
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