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The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Nobody
Inside
Postpone
Names
Nostalgia
Times
Weren
Felt
Anymore
Stories
Jokes
Become
Brought
Long
Tomorrow

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