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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.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Dark
Floats
Upon
Sail
Black
Ship
Book
Ships
Made
Thousands
Pages
Overlapping
Sea
Sails
Books
Ink

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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
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I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
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This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
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I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly
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