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Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
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Sea
Sails
Books
Ink
Dark
Floats
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Black
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Ships
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Thousands
Pages
Overlapping
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