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Why do you wear a mask and hood? I think everybody will in the near future, was the man in black's reply. They're terribly comfortable.

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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
Everybody
Future
Reply
Black
Hood
Men
Terribly
Think
Mask
Thinking
Near
Wear
Comfortable

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I understand everything,” he said. “You understand nothing, but it really doesn’t matter, since what you mean is, you’re glad to see me, just as I’m glad to see you because no more loneliness.” “That’s what I mean,” said Fezzik.
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