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Timing is a sensitive thing.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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Writer
Timing
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Misdirection is one of my strengths.
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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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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.
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