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I had to do that. At least once.

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Suzanne Collins
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 10
Executive Producer
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I don't know how to say it exactly. Only... I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense? he asks. I shake my head. How could he die as anyone but himself. I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I'm not.
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