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I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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