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There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

Audrey Niffenegger

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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
Artist
Author
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
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South Haven
Michigan
Wilderness
Stony
Soft
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Spread
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Victorian
Cemetery
Moonlight
Grey
Melancholy

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