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Goodbye, Room. I wave up at Skylight. Say goodbye, I tell Ma. Goodbye, Room. Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

Emma Donoghue

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Emma Donoghue
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
Literary Historian
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Back
Wave
Look
Door
Skylights
Looks
Doors
Crater
Something
Room
Craters
Time
Rooms
Mute
Like
Says
Goodbye
Happened
Hole
Tell
Holes

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