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What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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