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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Blue
Lies
Magic
Lying
Night
Two
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Yellow

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