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It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
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Ray Douglas Bradbury
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