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You look like a ghost, Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
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So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
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Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself
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Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
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Misdirection is one of my strengths.
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The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.
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