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Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.

Rick Yancey

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Rick Yancey
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 4
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Miami
Florida
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