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I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.

Alexandra Bracken

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
Promised
Monster
Monsters
Aren
Ones
Dangerous

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