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Will Madden lives in Baltimore, Maryland, originally from the Bronx, New York. He holds a degree in something ridiculous from a fancy institution of higher education. His hobbies include cool bugs, early 20th century painting, streaming cartoons in languages he doesn't understand particularly well, and collecting broken clocks. All his children are pets, and all his pets are plants. ...more

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“Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

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