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He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.
He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.
Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
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- Neil Gaiman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
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