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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Never
Bees
Carefully
Dramatic
Destructive
Ghost
Wasn
Stealthily
Rather
Slipped
Away
Ghosts

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