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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.

Rick Yancey

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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
Eye
Death
Seems
Look
Firsts
Nothing
Blinks
Looks
Blink
First
Impossible

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