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The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Little
Sisters
Tara
Everything
Dancer
Librarians
Sometimes
Actresses
Intoxicated
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Dancers
Subjects
Librarian
Bits
Heavily
Together
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Littles
Arrived
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