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People want you to be ordinary. They don't like it when people are different. They don't like it when a man soars over their heads while they stand in the dirt. People hate you when you're special it reminds them of everything that they aren't.

Robert Crais

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Robert Crais
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 20
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Elvis Cole
Jerry Gret Samouche
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