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But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

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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
Alone
Always
Would
Beginning
Inside
Wonder

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