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I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Started
Looking
Time
Thinking
Photographs
Weren
Photograph
Memories

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