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And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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