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That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

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Rick Yancey
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 4
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Miami
Florida
Richard Yancey
William James Henry
Will Henry
Line
Wants
Hear
Lines
Audience
Fall
Curtain
Give
Curtains
Giving
Falling

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