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When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.

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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
Morning
Hershey
Next
Beside
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Table
Tables
Wake
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