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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Faerie
Fairy
Loss
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Believe

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