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I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

Stephen Chbosky

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
People
Looked
Didn
Thought
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