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Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead. Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it. As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.

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Cinda Williams Chima
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
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Springfield
Ohio
Dies
Sleeping
Forbid
Eye
Knees
Bench
Next
Golden
Forehead
Anything
Dare
Strands
Ever
Tears
Benches
Hair
Foreheads
Raked
Sleep
Gently
Stung
Eyes
Listened
Sank

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