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It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Think
Thinking
People
Strange
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Book
Sometimes

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