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After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.

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Anne Fortier
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Novelist
Writer
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Misplaced
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Afternoon
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Poison
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Romeo

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