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The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.
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