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Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human.

Rick Yancey

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Rick Yancey
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 4
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Miami
Florida
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