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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

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Ransom Riggs
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: February 3
Film Director
Journalist
Photographer
Screenwriter
Writer
Maryland
United States
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