“I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.”

—  Daniel Handler, book The Beatrice Letters

The Beatrice Letters (2006)

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American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Sni… 1970

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