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You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

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Rick Yancey
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 4
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Miami
Florida
Richard Yancey
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