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Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.

Alexandra Bracken

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Scottsdale
Arizona
Dream
Dreaming
Better
Shakes
Kind
Gray
Disappointment
Stay
Funk
Wasn
Eaten
Dark
Depressed
Easy
Shake

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