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I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.
Sebastian Faulks
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Sebastian Faulks
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 20
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Sebastian Charles Faulks
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