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There's the bullshit you know that you know the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

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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
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Bullshit
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