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You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Certain
Walks
Creeping
Think
Side
Confines
Thinking
Sides
Circus
Quite
Fence
Within
Dawn
Felt
Awake
Away
Walk
Dream
Longer
Cirque

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