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You look like a winter night, he had told her when he had given it to her. I could sleep inside the cold of you.

Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Cat Valente
Given
Night
Look
Looks
Winter
Like
Cold
Inside
Told
Sleep

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