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I honestly think that I'd never have sat down at the computer and banged out that first book if I had perhaps not lost therefore a lot of my reading. As an alternative, I had probably still be still and a manager somewhere thinking about someday learning to be a novelist. Why I sometimes think that losing my hearing was one of the best things that ever happened to me that's.
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