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I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Right
Feel
Feels
Something
Like
Idly
Trapped
Clearly
Sitting

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