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So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

Stephen Chbosky

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Words
Understand
Else
Comfortably
Using
Nobody

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