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She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Eye
Tricks
Catches
Someone
Performing
Recognizes
Way
Members
Kitten
Time
Head
Circus
Seen
Smiles
Middle
Random
Bailey
Audience
Talented
Unusually
Turns
Member
Kittens

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