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I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

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Donna Tartt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
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Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
Architecture
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Eerie
Connected
Rubble
Cool
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