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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Without
Precede
Announcements
Arrives
Circus
Warning
Yesterday
Simply

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