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He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Hand
Covers
Hands
Crying
Made
Tape
Theme
Sister
Stopped
Tapes
Cry
Themes
Boys
Colored

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