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You're a wizard, I snapped. Can't you just use magic to make your own food? Ah, yes, he retorted. Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
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