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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
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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
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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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Misdirection is one of my strengths.
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I am already married, she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.
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You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
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Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.
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I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
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Celia. he says without looking up at her, why do we wind our watch? Because everything requires energy, she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.
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