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Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

Simon Van Booy

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Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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