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I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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