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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.
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped? I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in, Widget says. And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with, Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.
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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
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